JOHN LENNON YOKO ONO Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions VG 1969 Zapple

Sold Date: October 11, 2021
Start Date: May 17, 2021
Final Price: $39.99 (USD)
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Vinyl:  VG  Play Graded.  Sounds Very Good!  Zapple Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the Original 1969 Zapple 1ST Pressing!  ST-3357.  This is the Jacksonville, FL pressing.  The darlings of the Avant-Garde season of 1969, here we are invited into the angst of John & Yoko, definitely AFTER the honeymoon of the Wedding Album... The highlight for sure is the Freak Out on Side 1 with the wailing feedback and Yoko doing her thing all over you.  This album really suits the title:  this was made under the shadow of their drug bust (that's them coming out of the magistrate's office on the rear cover) and that's Yoko in the hospital bed during her miscarriage.  A dark journey into the heart of J & Y's angst.  This is one of two Rare records recorded on the experimental Apple offshoot, Zapple.  The other is George's "Electronic Sound".  An interesting journey...

See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Side 1: SN1  3357 B4  #2  O ((Capitol's Jacksonville, FL Pressing Plant)) Side 2:   SN2  3357 H6  #2  O ((Capitol's Jacksonville, FL Pressing Plant))
Cover: VG+  (see photos)  Nice high gloss on cover. The artwork and text is bright and clear, with minimal shelf wear. The corners, spine and seams are solid and clean, with some wear.  No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is clear.  

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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?  First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.  First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.   On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  
AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann and 's second collaborative album consists of five tracks: all of side one is taken up by "Cambridge 1969," a live recording at Lady Mitchell Hall in Cambridge of playing an electric guitar backup to 's singing and screaming. Side two includes an a cappella rendering by of "No Bed for Beatle John," which discusses the refusal of a hospital to give a bed so he could stay during his wife's troubled pregnancy; "Baby's Heartbeat," which is what it says it is; "Two Minutes Silence" in commemoration of 's miscarriage, which is also what it says it is; and "Radio Play," 12 minutes of a radio dial being turned back and forth to pick up random stations. If, as they suggested, their lives were their art, then this is, too.